{"id":148695,"date":"2025-10-30T18:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/?p=148695"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:31:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T01:31:48","slug":"trey-hensley-plays-his-new-taylor-gold-label-517e-grand-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/trey-hensley-plays-his-new-taylor-gold-label-517e-grand-pacific\/","title":{"rendered":"Trey Hensley Plays His New Taylor Gold Label 517e Grand Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"\u201cThere\u2019s something different about this one!\u201d | Taylor Guitars |  Gold Label Grand Pacific\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P294W2jE488?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Sponsored by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorguitars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Taylor Guitars<\/a>:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once dubbed \u201cNashville\u2019s hottest young player\u201d by this magazine, Trey Hensley brings his signature blend of Appalachian grit and bluesy finesse to Taylor\u2019s new Gold Label 517e. In this video, captured at Soundcheck Nashville, Hensley weighs in on the new round-shoulder dreadnought and demonstrates its earthy depth and warm, old-school tone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve played every day for twenty-some years,\u201d says Hensley, \u201cso at this point I know what <em>has it<\/em> and what <em>doesn\u2019t <\/em>\u2026 I haven\u2019t sat up and played until I went to bed since I was a kid. So it <em>has it<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blending traditional tone and modern playability, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorguitars.com\/guitars\/acoustic\/gold-label-collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Gold Label Collection<\/strong><\/a> guitars produce a heritage tone unlike anything you\u2019ve heard from Taylor before. The mahogany\/torrefied Sitka spruce Gold Label 517e features a deeper Grand Pacific body, fanned V-Class\u00ae bracing and Taylor\u2019s new long-tenon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorguitars.com\/guitars\/acoustic\/features\/neck\/action-control-neck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Action Control Neck\u2122<\/strong><\/a>. The patented neck design enables swift string height adjustments, boosts low-end resonance and delivers signature Taylor playability. \u201cThere\u2019s something about it that I can play for a long time,\u201d Hensley says. \u201cIt\u2019s inspiring \u2026 the neck is always perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taylor\u2019s Gold Label 517e is available with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorguitars.com\/guitars\/acoustic\/gold-label-517e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>natural<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorguitars.com\/guitars\/acoustic\/gold-label-517e-blacktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>blacktop<\/strong><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorguitars.com\/guitars\/acoustic\/gold-label-517e-sb-cream-pickguard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>sunburst<\/strong><\/a> finish. Prefer Indian rosewood? Check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorguitars.com\/guitars\/acoustic\/gold-label-717e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Gold Label 717e<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorguitars.com\/guitars\/acoustic\/gold-label-collection?utm_source=string-letter-pub&amp;utm_medium=&amp;utm_campaign=gold-label&amp;utm_content=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/GL-GP-300x250-1.png?resize=300%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-148696\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taylorguitars.com\/guitars\/acoustic\/gold-label-collection?utm_source=string-letter-pub&amp;utm_medium=&amp;utm_campaign=gold-label&amp;utm_content=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn more about Taylor&#8217;s Gold Label Collection<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsored by&nbsp;Taylor Guitars: Once dubbed \u201cNashville\u2019s hottest young player\u201d by this magazine, Trey Hensley brings his signature blend of Appalachian grit and bluesy finesse to Taylor\u2019s new Gold Label 517e. In this video, captured at Soundcheck Nashville, Hensley weighs in on the new round-shoulder dreadnought and demonstrates its earthy depth and warm, old-school tone.&nbsp; \u201cI\u2019ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":148699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1640],"class_list":["post-148695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sponsored"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2025-09-10-at-5.41.04-PM.png?fit=852%2C481&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":1640,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"advertising-partner","display_name":"Sponsored Story","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/author_fallback.png","url2x":"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/author_fallback.png"},"author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":"Occasionally we post stories on behalf of our sponsors. 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